🛡️ Islamic Duas for Protection — Arabic, Transliteration & Meaning
Below are 9 supplications for Protection, presented with vowelized Arabic script, easy-to-read Latin transliteration, English translation, and explicit source & grading references.
Bismillahil-ladhi la yadurru ma’asmihi shay’un fil-ardi wa la fis-sama’, wa huwas-Sami’ul-Alim
In the name of Allah, with whose name nothing on earth or in heaven can cause harm. And He is the All-Hearing, the All-Knowing.
Reported Context & Reflection: Abān, the son of ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān, was paralysed down one side. A man to whom he had narrated this hadith kept looking at him. Abān noticed and said: Why do you stare at me? The hadith is exactly as I told you — but on that day I did not say the words.
Reported Virtue: Said three times in the morning and three times in the evening: “Nothing will harm him.”
A’udhu bi-kalimatillahit-tammati min sharri ma khalaq
I seek refuge in the perfect words of Allah from the evil of what He has created.
Reported Context & Reflection: Narrated by Khawla bint Ḥakīm. It was later reported that a man who had said these words was stung by a scorpion and came to no harm. An-Nawawī accordingly lists the supplication among the prayers for travel and halting.
Reported Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said: whoever stops at a place and says this, nothing will harm him until he departs from that place.
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ Muslim, Kitāb adh-Dhikr wa d-Duʿāʾ (von Khawla bint Ḥakīm) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Was man sagt, wenn man an einem Ort Rast macht
Allahu la ilaha illa huwal-Hayyul-Qayyum. La ta’khudhuhu sinatun wa la nawm. Lahu ma fis-samawati wa ma fil-ard. Man dhal-ladhi yashfa’u indahu illa bi-idhnih. Ya’lamu ma bayna aydihim wa ma khalfahum, wa la yuhituna bi-shay’in min ilmihi illa bima sha’. Wasi’a kursiyyuhus-samawati wal-ard, wa la ya’uduhu hifzuhuma, wa huwal-Aliyyul-Azim.
Allah — there is no god but He, the Ever-Living, the Sustainer of all. Neither drowsiness overtakes Him nor sleep. To Him belongs whatever is in the heavens and on the earth. Who is there that can intercede with Him except by His permission? He knows what lies before them and what lies behind them, and they encompass nothing of His knowledge except what He wills. His Throne extends over the heavens and the earth, and their preservation does not weary Him. And He is the Most High, the Immense.
Reported Context & Reflection: Abū Hurayra was put in charge of guarding the zakāt of Ramadan. Three nights running a thief came and stole from it. The third time the thief said: let me go and I will teach you words that will benefit you — recite the Verse of the Throne when you go to bed, and a guardian from Allah will remain over you and no devil will come near you until morning. The next day the Prophet ﷺ said: “He told you the truth, though he is a habitual liar. Do you know whom you have been speaking to for three nights, Abū Hurayra? That was a devil.”
Reported Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said: whoever recites it when going to bed has a guardian from Allah over him, and no devil comes near him until morning.
📚 Koran, Sūrat al-Baqara 2:255 · Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Kitāb al-Wakāla (von Abū Hurayra) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Was man vor dem Schlafen liest
Sūras 112, 113 and 114 — recited three times in the morning and three times in the evening.
Reported Context & Reflection: ʿĀʾisha also reported: when the Prophet ﷺ went to bed he would cup his hands, breathe into them, recite these three sūras, and wipe over as much of his body as he could reach — beginning with his head and face. Three times.
Reported Virtue: The Prophet ﷺ said to ʿUqba ibn ʿĀmir: “Recite them three times in the morning and three times in the evening — they will suffice you against everything.”
Allahumma inni as’alukal-afwa wal-afiyata fid-dunya wal-akhirah. Allahumma inni as’alukal-afwa wal-afiyata fi dini wa dunyaya wa ahli wa mali. Allahumma-stur awrati wa amin raw’ati. Allahumma-hfazni min bayni yadayya wa min khalfi wa an yamini wa an shimali wa min fawqi, wa a’udhu bi-azamatika an ughtala min tahti
O Allah, I ask You for pardon and wellbeing in this world and the next. O Allah, I ask You for pardon and wellbeing in my religion, my worldly life, my family and my property. O Allah, cover my failings and calm my fears. O Allah, guard me from in front and behind, from my right and my left and from above — and I seek refuge in Your greatness from being snatched away from below.
Reported Context & Reflection: Ibn ʿUmar reported: the Prophet ﷺ never omitted these words morning and evening. Six directions are named in it — all but one. For what is below, protection is not requested but refuge is sought in Allah’s greatness; scholars read in this a reference to what comes from below: the grave.
📚 Sunan Ibn Mājah & Sunan Abī Dāwūd (von Ibn ʿUmar) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Morgen- und Abendgedenken
Protection for Children — What Ibrāhīm Said Over His Sons
U’idhukuma bi-kalimatillahit-tammah, min kulli shaytanin wa hammah, wa min kulli aynin lammah
I place you both in the protection of the perfect words of Allah, from every devil and every venomous creature, and from every harmful eye.
Reported Context & Reflection: The Prophet ﷺ said these words over al-Ḥasan and al-Ḥusayn and added: “Your father” — meaning Ibrāhīm — “used to seek protection with them for Ismāʿīl and Isḥāq.” For a single child one says “Uʿīdhuka” (m.) or “Uʿīdhuki” (f.).
📚 Ṣaḥīḥ al-Bukhārī, Kitāb Aḥādīth al-Anbiyāʾ (von Ibn ʿAbbās) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Der Schutz für Kinder
When Something Amazes You — Mā Shāʾ Allāh
Quranic Verse
مَا شَاءَ اللَّهُ لَا قُوَّةَ إِلَّا بِاللَّهِ
Ma sha’Allah, la quwwata illa billah
What Allah wills (comes to pass) — there is no power except with Allah.
Reported Context & Reflection: In the parable of the two gardens the believer says to the proud owner: why, when you entered your garden, did you not say “Mā shāʾ Allāh, lā quwwata illā billāh”? The Sunna builds on this: whoever admires something in himself, his property or another says these words — so that admiration does not turn into harm.
📚 Koran, Sūrat al-Kahf 18:39 · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Was man sagt, wenn einem etwas gefällt
Allahumma inna naj’aluka fi nuhurihim wa na’udhu bika min shururihim
O Allah, we place You against them and seek refuge in You from their evil.
Reported Context & Reflection: The Prophet ﷺ said this when he feared a people. The Arabic image is literal: “We set You at their throats” — precisely where one can do nothing oneself.
📚 Sunan Abī Dāwūd, Kitāb al-Witr (von Abū Mūsā al-Ashʿarī) · an-Nawawī, al-Adhkār — Kapitel: Was man sagt, wenn man einen Feind fürchtet
Rabbana la taj’alna fitnatan lil-qawmiz-zalimin, wa najjina bi-rahmatika minal-qawmil-kafirin
Our Lord, do not make us a trial for the wrongdoing people, and save us by Your mercy from the disbelieving people.
Reported Context & Reflection: Spoken by the few young people who believed Mūsā. The first request is unusual: not for protection from the oppressors, but not to become an occasion for further wrongdoing by them — that no one make an example of them.
📚 Koran, Sūrat Yūnus 10:85–86
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How many duas for Protection are included on this page?
This collection includes 9 curated supplications for Protection, each with Arabic text, transliteration, English meaning, and classical reference.
Can I recite these duas in English while learning the Arabic?
Memorizing and reciting prophetic and Quranic duas in their original Arabic carries special blessing, while pouring your heart out to Allah in your own language outside obligatory prayer postures is always welcome.
How are sources and authenticity grades displayed?
Every dua card transparently displays its classification (Quranic Verse, Sahih, Hasan, or Traditional Supplication) alongside exact citations such as Sahih al-Bukhari, Sahih Muslim, or Imam an-Nawawī’s al-Adhkār.
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